Hundred Quotes
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.
I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
Do you see what I mean?! About the theater?! I'm back here for three hours and I'm acting like a lunatic. I'll be in analysis till I'm a hundred
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
But don't blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she's still experimenting.
There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.